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Opinion: What world is Jared Kushner living in?
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Still, Palestinian rage has been building for years, and Kushner, as then-President Donald Trumps shadow secretary of state, helped contribute to this, something Kushner seems to be blissfully unaware of.
The pace of new West Bank settlements built by the Israelis accelerated during Kushners tour of duty as the self-appointed Middle East peace czar, according to analyses by The Associated Press, and the Trump administration publicly took the position that these new settlements were not illegal, reversing decades of US policy on the issue.
The Trump administration also moved the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, something previous administrations had avoided doing because Palestinians also regard Jerusalem as their capital, and Muslims look upon it as a sacred city because the al-Aqsa mosque in East Jerusalem is the third holiest site in Islam.
When the US embassy opened in Jerusalem, Kushner declared, Peace is within reach. Meanwhile, in a telling split screen, Israeli forces in Gaza were simultaneously killing dozens of Palestinians protesting the opening of the embassy.
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https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/21/opinions/jared-kushner-gaza-israel-palestine-property-bergen/index.html
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Opinion: What world is Jared Kushner living in? (Original Post)
Uncle Joe
Mar 22
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Walleye
(31,022 posts)1. Kushner's, old family friends with the Netanyahu's. What else should we expect?
Irish_Dem
(47,058 posts)2. The Trumps and Kushners live in their own rarefied world.
Where money and power are the only things that matter.
The lives and welfare of anyone other than themselves is totally unimportant
and never given a thought.
Blue Owl
(50,374 posts)4. Why nothing stinks inside their own fart bubble
SWBTATTReg
(22,124 posts)3. He's a f**king joke.
Pinback
(12,155 posts)5. "Blissfully aware" is more like it.
They know exactly what theyre doing. Starving Palestinians and stealing their land would help Kushner acquire a few choice properties on the sea coast. Its a feature, not a byproduct.
Prof. Toru Tanaka
(1,960 posts)6. Spot-on statement and
it agrees perfectly with Irish Dems post. In the end, Kushner and Trump are soulless and only care about money and power.